Echoes of the Sunbird An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry

Name: Echoes of the Sunbird An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry
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ISBN: 9780896801738

ISBN-10: 089680173X

ISBN-13: 9780896801738

Edition: 1993

Authors: Don Burness, Donald Burness

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This volume presents a broad overview of the work of seven of Africa's leading poets. Five of them have received international recognition: Niyi Osundare and Chinua Achebe, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize; Osundare and Antonio Jacinto, the Noma Prize; and Jose Craveirinha, the Camoes Prize. The poems concern political, personal, and social themes and are written with aesthetic simplicity and lyricism. The contributors believe that poets, rather than being exiles from their communities, are prophets, seers, and singers and have a place in everyday life.

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 2/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Illustrations


Contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Chinua Achebe


Essay


Where Something Stands, Look Well: Something Else Is Standing Right Beside It


Poems


Misunderstanding


1966


Benin Road


Refugee Mother and Child


Beware, Soul Brother


Vultures


Lament of the Sacred Python


Knowing Robs Us


Remembrance Day


Pine Tree in Spring


Agostinho Neto


Dennis Brutus


Essay


Constellations of Exile


Poems


Their Behavior


Cold


In Prison


Orion's Belt Is Out


Success Cannot Redeem Despair


Sirens Contrail the Night Air


I Am Alien in Africa and Everywhere


Sequence for South Africa


Our Allies Are Exiles


Even Nightingales


Moving Intangibly


I Have Commuted Between the World's Capitals


Our Hands Meet


I Am Out of Love With You For Now


Nortje at The Bod


Finally The Hoarse Voice--Tribute to Etheridge Knight


Pictures of Ajlon


Jose Craveirinha


Essay


Poetry Is Playing With Words


Poems


Black Protest


Song of the Great Barge


Manifesto


I Want to Be a Drum


Poem


Mamana Saquina


Mamparra M'gaiza


A Man Never Cries


Cell 1


Metamorphosis


Kerchiefs


My Mourning


Elegy


Ossie Enekwe


Essay


My Poetry


Poems


Husbandman


Raven Day


Beyond Tears


Broken Pots


Even After the Grave


To a Friend Made and Lost in War


The Story of a Ceylonese Girl


Sing Not For a Crowd


Agbogho Mmonwu


Mother


Rain


Gentle Birds Come to Me


Antonio Jacinto


Essay


We Are Other People


Poems


Discovery


Autobiography


Monangamba


Love Poem


The People Went to War


Letter From a Contract Worker


Remembering


The Rhythm of the Tomtom


Memories and Longings


Monte Gracioso


Oh If You Could See Here Poetry That Does Not Exist!


Fascine Day


For Ovidio Martins


Niyi Osundare


Essay


The Possibilities of Hope


Poems


The Word Is an Egg


I Wake up This Morning


Farmer-Born


Eyeful Glances


Our Earth Will Not Die


For Chief Samuel Fal Adeniran


For Olof Palme


Song of the Tyrant


Waiting


Have You Seen Adufe in the Waiting Moon


The Moon is a Mask Dancing


Frantic as a Prentice Poet


Moonfire Too Is Deciduous


The Moon Is an Exile


Zimba-Bwe


Lenrie Peters


Essay


Confessions of a Private Man


Poems


And So This Long Affair


How Do We Come With Rage


We Have Come Home


Parachute Men Say


Time Was


Home Coming


Come Let Us Listen Together


Katchikali


I Hear Weeping in My Dreams


Little One You Came


We Have Lived as If in Vacuum Cylinders


Turning The Pages of My Diary Slowly


Yevtushenko Disdains


At First I Did Not Know You


I Felt the Tremor in Yours


Dear Mr. Gorbachev